Can You Suck Energy OUT of a Black Hole?
A rotating black hole is such an extreme force of nature that it drags surrounding time and space around with it. So it is only natural to ask whether black … Read more
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SPACE: How Close Can You Get to a Black Hole?
Streams of gas fall to their dooms, plunging into black holes, locked away from the universe forever. In their final moments, these gassy shreds send out one last flare of … Read more
SPACE: Three Black Holes Are About to Collide
A rare trio of supermassive black holes has been caught in the act of coming together. Three of the light-gobbling monsters nuzzle shoulder to shoulder in SDSS J084905.51+111447.2, a system … Read more
SPACE: Colliding Galaxies Create Ring of Black Holes
A giant ring of black holes has been discovered 300 million light-years away, offering new clues about what happens when galaxies collide. Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers detected a … Read more
SPACE: Cosmic Zombies
Close encounters with medium-size black holes can reanimate dead stars, if only momentarily, a new study suggests. A team of astronomers performed computer simulations to determine what happens when a … Read more
SCIENCE: How to Get Inside a Black Hole
SCIENCE Physicists have insisted for a long time that black holes are impenetrable ciphers. Whatever goes in is lost, impossible to study or meaningfully understand. Some small amount of matter … Read more
SCIENCE: Are We Living in a Hologram?
In the late 1990s, theoretical physicists uncovered a remarkable connection between two seemingly unrelated concepts in theoretical physics. That connection is almost inscrutably technical, but it might have far-reaching consequences … Read more